Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-09-19
DAKOTA NEWSPAPERS.
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toriaI Scriees.

headed the great Maait ba system $
ward southeastern Dakuts The ,a.as
oion1 CITY did not like the appear.,,,.
OF things. Iht y knew that Hill wan
W oui'd w DenVer, ahd they were any
luus TO nave blm cross the Misson,,
river OF Sioux City. Tue business nv.
OF the latter CITY combined Together aea
pus . corps OF surveyors on the ra.a
lhey found a feasiole route bat vasn
Sioux City and Denver, aud then nn,
enelr surveyors at work on u runta IL
tween sioux Olty and Marshall, MINI
hoping to there head off the Msn,toha
and steer them down to the city Of srest
promise In northwestern Iowa. J.T
Mcintyre was chief engineer
OF D CORPS. But the head"
ing oil plan did not work, The
Manitoba dlsregarded the survey and
vent on to Sioux Falls. But now Stony
City people are on another tack. Thew
aiso' are people who win. They propose
TO onnec with the great Manitoba avs
tenn, and to assist them in the work viii
have 9 quarter OF o million dollar tsY
from Sioux City alone. They went thu
shortest line to Duluth, and expect to
ultimately make SUCH q road a u,ana
trunk line to Denver and the w.sts,n
coast. The old plan WA to run 10 lar.
ton, sioux county, thence north, cross-
ing the Milwaukee road about eighteen
miles east Of Canton and on to Marshal,
But Mayor Thorson and Delegate Gif.
ford have put q flea in the ears
Of the Sioux City railroad, com'
mittee, and the plan now ia to RIM
from Sioux City north to Iertop: thenca
northwest to Canton, and on to a con-
~neotion with the Manitoba at Brandon.
Mimi, about nine miles east OF Sion1
Falls. This line would be twenty.fiva
miles shorter than the Marshall plan,
Engineer Mcintyre came up from Sionr
City Monday, and in the evening a pnh.
lie railroaa meeting was held at tha
court house. Delegate Clifford was
chosen chairman. of the gathering. which
war held for the purpose of raising
money for securing a profile of the pro-
posed line, from Brandon down thronob
Canton and OF to Treton. A oommittee
consisting of Mayor Thorson, VIM. M
Ouppett, VIM. Fowler, John w, Hewitt
and r. "a. Hiohborn. was appointed 10
raise the money for the survey. Mon
day MI. Clifford accompanied Engineer
Mcintyre I'VE the proposed route to
Ireton, end a corps OF Surveyors will i'm
mediately proceed to ran the lines.
Alexandria Herald: The nan who
thinks Of coming to Dakota better come
now. Crop failure has stopped the I'm
migration to Kansas. The flow will seek
a new outlet. Dakota crops have been
continuously good. This year they are
better than any spot OF place on earth.
The crowd will surely tnrn this way.
Now lands can be bought very cheap.
IA Q o as people begin to come and
saies begin to be made, valnes will in.
crease. The spring will surely witness q
boom. The time TO come is this fall be.
fore the rush sets in.
jamestown Alert: Dakota is on the
rebound, and everything seeras shaping
tor q stendy advance in values and u re-
vival OF sll kinds OF business. The terri.
tory is too tempting for capital, too pro
ductive for individuals and too great all
around for q much longer spell of sta.
tlonary existence. IL will get in line
with the rest OF the northwest pretty
quick.
Armour Tribune: There is no better
time to buy Dakota lands than now
yes now! Lands will never be sold
cheaper In Dakota than they can be
bought this fall and during the coming
winter. The land is lower now than it
ever will beSagain, and the next five
years will show o wonderful appreciation
in the values of real estate over all the
west and more especially Dakota where
zeal estate to-day is worth much less
than Dny other state or territory, having
equally as good land. Land has
deprecated everywhere, and is worth to.
day much less over Iowa and Illinois
than 1t was five years ago. There has
been such o general decline in values OF
real estate all over the United States
and naturally Dakota has felt this de-
preston. But prices Ia Dakota have
reached the low water mark. Already
the sigma OF activity in real estate be-
gins to be seen and even the most con-
%servative prophesies indicate that the
next few years will work wonders in real
estate values. 1t is certainly q good
time to buy, and people in the east with
the idea in mind to some time make in
vestments in Dakota will do we'll to
make . note of this. If You want Da-
kosa lands buy this fall.
Redfield Journal: The last demo-
cratic convention of Dakota declared in
favor OF the submission of the question
OF territorial division to the people for
an expression Of their sentiment apper-
tanning thereto through the ballot boz.
All the democratic journals of the
territory declared each and every plank
q the platform and every sentence OF
Enc resolutions to be sound. They were
all endorsed. 1t is now quite amusing
TO hear some OF these same journals en-
deavor to belittle the movements for o
vote on division and to declare that 1t
Will have no Influence upon congress
anyway. Ii we remember rightly the
platform pledged the democratic party
OF Dakota to abide by the will Of the
people expressed throug the ballot in oil
matters pertaining to Dakota. We are
wondering what many of these anti-diy-
ision democrats will do If the people say
next November that they want division.
WlH they continue 10 repndiate their
party platform of 1872.
Grand Forks Herald: The Huron an
campment has done some good other
than in military way. It has been. Q
boom for division. Nearly oil the boys
from b north who were at the encamp-
ment, have returned home strong di-
viaionists. They never want 10 go to
another encannpment in south Dakota.
minnesota or Manitoba would be pre-
ferable; Tor they would meet more con-
genial friends, and their social and bust
ness interests would be more nearly
identical. Every public assemblaRe or
demonstration participated in by the
whole territory emphasizes the necessity
OF division. The two peoples are as wide
apart aB the poles. There is no COM